The evacuation has highlighted the escalating humanitarian crisis, with thousands of Palestinians needing urgent care outside the besieged territory.
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00:00Dozens of Palestinian patients have been evacuated from the European hospital in the Gaza Strip
00:07to receive treatment.
00:08The 45 patients left the southern city of Khan Younis early Tuesday and traveled into
00:14Israel, according to Palestinian health officials.
00:17The evacuation comes as the United Nations say Israel's attacks on and around hospitals
00:22have pushed health care to the brink.
00:24The one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe, in fact, became a death trap.
00:33Under certain circumstances, the deliberate destruction of health care facilities may
00:39amount to a form of collective punishment, which is also a war crime.
00:46As winter hits, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in tents are facing frequent rainstorms
00:52and cold temperatures.
00:55One father described the dire conditions him and his family are living in.
00:59We were sleeping, the world rained on us, the situation got worse, we all got up, there
01:07was no place to sleep, we couldn't sleep.
01:13The recent bad weather has forced Palestinians to repair their flooded and worn out tents.
01:20According to the UN, nearly 950,000 displaced people in the Gaza Strip are at risk of exposure
01:26this winter.